Despite the recent global uptick in white supremacist terrorism, governments continue to face accusations of not taking the threat seriously, either discursively or in terms of policy responses. Why do acts of white supremacist violence consistently fail to constitute turning points for policy change? Rather than considering acts of political violence as critical junctures for change, I argue that such acts instead reveal how persistent institutions of power actually are. I develop a theory of hegemonic components of national identity that links institutionalized white supremacy to the differential treatment of non-white perpetrators, even when they are deemed terrorists, through a process of institutional reproduction. Drawing on interviews with German national security elites, I show that even when white supremacist violence is treated as terrorism, both legally and discursively, it does not engender policy responses and attitudinal changes on par with those following other terrorist threats.

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恐怖观念：政府对政治暴力的回应中的制度再生产

尽管最近全球白人至上主义恐怖活动呈上升趋势，但各国政府仍然继续面临批评，无论是在话语上还是在政策应对方面，都没有认真对待这一威胁。为什么白人至上主义暴力行为始终未能构成政策改变的转折点？我认为，政治暴力行为不是变革的关键关头，而是表明这种行为实际上是多么持久的权力机构。我发展了一种关于民族认同的霸权组成部分的理论，该理论将制度化的白人至上主义与通过制度再生产过程将非白人犯罪者（即使被视为恐怖分子）区别对待联系起来。利用对德国国家安全精英的采访，